San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-07-28

Saa advertisement of J.. Powers.
The San Marcos Baptist Association me
last week at Kyle.
The late corn crop is about "done for
and the cotton Is needing rain badly.
We Join with the Blanco Star in compi
menting the Kyle Tines on its marked in
provement
We learn that $500 were subscribed tn
other day by the antis of New Braunfel
for election purposes.
We learn that the Farmers Alliance Q
this place recently received some ladies Int
membership. A move in the right diree
ton.
A call meeting for the W. @. L. u, to b
held at the M. E. church at p. IN, Frida
2sth inst. Every one is cordially invite'
to attend.
There are several refugees here en- route
from about Pearsall for some better coun
try. All sorts of crops there are a failure
and stock dying.
There is an old saying that the devil cal
quote scripture to SUIT his purpose. I'M
speakers at the Cook gathering demonstrat
cd that Satan's chosen >emisaries can do ~
with auency.
Don't fail to read the account of the pro
hibition victory at Rome, Ga, to be found
in our present issue. 1t is most cheering
and gives some important pointers" fol
the conduct of the campaign in Texas
which we would like to see adopted, ever
in San Marcos.
II the acrobatic accomplishments OF the
vounp man of the Cresset are not quite ex
traordinary, he will be apt soon to come tt
grief in the grand feat, in which he is al
present engaged, of attempting to ride three
or four horses, going in different directions
at the same time.
The governor aud ex-governor whom
Judge Cook in his Bolton speech stated he
had ON either side of him "the last time he
got drunk" we are informed by citizens OF
this town who were on the train and wit
messed the scene, were Ross and Ireland.
An interesting trio!
A Blanco correspondent of the Austin
Prohibitionist says the recent burning to
death of DR.. Odiorne ut johnson City, was
the result of incorporate habits. We be
lieye il followed an snti-prohibition meet
lug at that place. DR.. o, was a good man,
but victim Of strong drink.
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Remember the County Fair meeting at
the Court House tomorrow. We hope to
see q large attendance, for it is matter OF
first-class importance. The stock and ag-
ricultural interests lie at the basis of the
general prosperity in this county, and
should be carefully nufoared by our people.
The Kyle Times having declared for pro-
hibition is reaping the natural results. In
its last issue it says:
Two saloon advertisements disappear
from the Times this week, and five new
ones of better class appear.
We heartily congratulate the Times.
It is reported that Hon L. w. Moore, the
anti, declines to debate the question of pro-
T. 18th No1 7 Hutohinu
We find the above in the last Kyle Times
We learn that Mr., Grain also declined, and
that Mr.. H. is ready to meet Burgess or
"any other man" on the anti side, and we
doubt not can do SO successfully.
The speaking of Drs. Fisher and Swear
engen on Monday night we hear spoken of
as among the very best of the campaign.
Their experience as physicians in large
practice enabled them to clinch the evil
effects of the liquor traffic with the logic
Of facts of most striking and impressive
character.
The Corn CONFESSED. 1t will be noticed
by the discerning reader that the Cresset,
speaking, it is fair to presume, as the organ
of Mr. Representative McGehee. makes not
one solitary material denial of our statement
as to his conduct toward us in the matter of
influencing the advertisement of the con-
stitutional amendments.
The programme of the next session of our
Summer Institute on Chsutauqua Hill ap
pears in our columns this week, and the
interest taken In the pend |
ing election should not prevent its perusal.
We contemplate in our next writing some
thing with regard to the errofs of the past
in the conduct Of the Assembly. with some
for its future benefit.
Messrs- Ford and Hull. hluor traffic sup
porters from San Marcos, were here address
ing the people on behalf of their employers
They had q good sober audience. and many /
were surprised that such talented orators
should have 30 long concealed their calling. |
We clip the above from the wimberIey
Of the Kyle Times. The
Cresset man claimed to have gone on this
trip IS delegate TO the PArmersl Alliance.
but from the Eboye it would seem to have
been az . representative Of the saloon in